Folks,

I have been trying out the new feature of having the interface in one language while reading wikipedia in another.

I have found some small bugs.

While the interface is set to French in my preferences, the English wikipedia reports "Basé sur le travail de $1." at the top of http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=x...

Obviously a parameter missing somewhere.

Also, at the bottom of any page,

Dernière modification de cette page : 9 jan 2005 à 21:45. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).

Perhaps the License description should be in French too.

On a different subject, I see that the images tarball has ballooned from 2.5 Gig in March 2004 to 15 Gig Jan 2005.

Wow.

I would /love/ an rsync interface to this archive - downloading the whole thing to get the updates is rapidly becoming unmanageable.

I put snapshots of wikipedia down in South African schools that do not have realtime access to Internet - and it is proving very popular. My distribution mechanism has become a hard drive, with Linux, mysql, mediawiki, and the wikipedia tables and images pre-installed, and either mailed or carried to the school.

I download the wikipedia frontpage nightly and fix up the links to point to the local snapshot - give it a fresh, newsy feel. Some links do not work, of course, but things like the Featured Article work well, and non-bolded links in the News items and Recent articles.

Any local edits are lost, of course, when I update them (disk swap).

Cheers, Andy!

http://wizzy.org.za/ [[en:User:Wikiwizzy]]

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